It was time for Europe to recognize and award music’s greatest in Frankfurt, Germany during the MTV EMAs. This meant oodles of gorgeous dresses down the red carpet from the music industry’s finest. Rita Ora stunned in her red Marchesa gown as the rest opted for black frocks. Alicia Keys’ showed off a sleek hairdo in her Stella McCartney dress as Taylor Swift glowed in her 1920’s inspired J.Mendell panel dress. Here’s a look at some of the trends that made it down the MTV EMAs 2012 red carpet.
Black is everything. Black was definitely the colour of the night as not more than one celebrity showed up in anything else. Anne V, Isabeli Fontana and Kim Kardashian amongst others wore full black ensembles as their colour of choice.
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| From L-R: Gwen Stefani, Anne V, Isabeli Fontana, Kim Kardashian |
Color. From Alicia Keys in green to Rita Ora’s several red looks, colorful frocks did not go amiss on the MTV EMAs red carpet.
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| From L-R: Alicia Keys, Rita Ora, Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen. |
Dashingly male. The males brought their A-game to the Awards in casual chic to stylishly male. PSY drew on his signature tuxedo while Ludacris took to all black.
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| From L-R: Hang Seng, Ludacris, PSY, Pitbull |
In the eight. Heidi Klum rocked nine Versace ss13 as hostess of the Europe Music Awards and did not disappoint. From the red carpet on to the stage, some looks were better than others and these were her best.
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| Heidi Klum |
On Stage. Gwen Stefani continued her color of choice- black on to the stage whilst Rita Ora stuck to red for her performance on the MTV EMAs stage.
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| From L-R: Alicia Keys, Rita Ora, Gwen Stefani and Taylor Swift |